Square Enix Preparing A Chocobo Panic? [5/14]

[Gingerbread Lesbian]

Square Enix has been awfully quiet about future releases, but a chocobo may have slipped out of the stable. Literally. A trademark for Chocobo Panic was filed in Europe by Square Enix. Bastien from French Final Fantasy fan site FFring kindly tipped us about this.

Siliconera did a little more digging and discovered Square Enix Japan also owns the domain chocobopanic.com. They purchased it on May 12, 2010 and Yoichi Wada, CEO of Square Enix, is listed as the registrant. The site is empty, but a domain name plus a trademark suggest something is up.

We’ll add this to the list of unaccounted Square Enix trademarks, which also has Chocobo’s Crystal Towers and Mindhack on it.

Source: Siliconera

 

[The Witch]

What. Is. This?

Sounds oddly interesting.

 

[Linnaete]

Aren't there like a dozen ambiguous IPs and unannounced games from SE now? I'm starting to lose track of things now while the bigger IPs are still hardly anywhere to be seen.

Chocobo Panic - call me Miss Obvious, but it's definitely one of those Chocobo spin-off games. I never had the impression they even sold that well - if at all. This title though - makes me think of a game full of minigames.

It'll probably find a nice home on the DS or iPhone.